When I'm not reading political blogs, I am reading trashy celebrity blogs. Occasionally these worlds will collide, as they did today when I saw the following photos on a few of my bookmarked sites (to avoid the copyright infringement, I turned these photos onto high quality photoshop art a la OPOL. Please, feel free to print and frame them. I used the 'plastic wrap' effect.):
I'll give him props for keeping his abs about him while also working hard to reignite a cold war. Man knows his priorities.
W may have fostered a fake cowboy shtick over the years to highlight his masculinity, but you can be damned sure that quality topless photos of him will never emerge. Vladimir, on the other hand, has created a BEEFCAKE SENSATION.
From the AP
The resulting images of the presidential abs, prominently enshrined on the presidential Web site, inspired admiration, criticism and some racing pulses among his admirers.
The Russian media still can't get enough.
The mass market tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda on Wednesday published a huge color photo of the barechested president, under the headline: "Be Like Putin." A guide showing exactly what exercises were required to build up a torso like that of the Russian leader.
Swoon!
One radio talk show host speculated that the pictures were meant to enhance Putin's personal appeal to voters — a strong signal that he doesn't plan to relinquish power. When the commentator, Yevgeniya Albats, went on to suggest that his half-naked photo shoot was unbecoming a Russian leader, female listeners peppered her with emails expressing admiration for Putin's physique.
Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that women who visited its Web site posted comments on Putin's "vigorous torso" and said they "were screaming with delight and showering (him) with compliments."
Oh dear, the ladies are screaming.
Click here and tell me that this man does not know EXACTLY what he is doing. Look at that strut! O the POWER!!
Anyways. Kind of a boring day.